...The story of the Adelphia Scandal begins in 1952 with purchase of a cable network company by John Rigas. By the year 1972, the purchased cable network had evolved into Adelphia Communications Corporation. By the late 1990s, Adelphia had acquired Century Communications and eventually became the sixth largest cable company, servicing over 5 million subscribers. Adelphia was a family owned and operated business. Rigas family members were the majority of Adelphia’s board members and controlled a majority of the organizations voting stock. John Rigas held the position of Founder and Chairman, his three sons held key management positions such as, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice Presidents. Like several other businesses owned and managed by family members, Adelphia feel victim to poor ethical decision-making, managerial deception, and social irresponsibility. John Rigas was well known for his extremely lavish lifestyle. The Rigas family indulged in things such as several luxury properties, private jets, leisure construction projects, and even majority ownership of a professional league hockey team. The extravagant life style enjoyed by the Rigas family was primarily funded by Adelphia Communication Corporation. Unknown to stockholders and nonfamily related board members, Adelphia had financed over $2 billion in loans to the Rigas family. The Rigas family had started several private business ventures using Adelphia as a partnership , which resulted in the Rigas family...
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...For the last eight years, I lived an internal battle between seeking professional achievement or accepting defeat by the numerous burdens and obstacles that laid before me and weighed my spirit down. Despite my never ending fear of failure and feeling of mediocrity, I managed to finish secondary school with above average grades, yet not with my best effort. In the fall after my graduation year, I was blessed with a baby girl. She is the light that brightly shines on my path. Two years later, my second beacon of light came with the arrival of my baby boy. My doubts and fears had only held me back this whole time and people around me started giving up hope that I would further my education and go above statics and achieve personal self-actualization. I overheard a family member make a comment about how it was such a pity to see someone such as myself, who is an exceedingly bright young lady, providing such a poor example to my two children. This comment made my chest heavy with a feeling of ineptitude, anger and shame. At that moment I made a resolution to prove to not only to others and myself but most importantly to my children that this was not the end of the road. The innate determination and ambition that followed led me to enroll into college and begin a journey where failure is not an option. The main ingredients to ensure ultimate success are prioritize, plan and focus. My objective is to complete an associate's in Criminal Justice at Palo Alto College to be followed with...
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...The Art of Crafting a 15-Word Strategy Statement RECOMMENDED In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. As he writes in “The Big Lie of Strategic Planning“, the first rule is “keep the strategy statement simple.” Rather than a long, often vague document, the company’s strategy should summarize the chosen target customers and the value proposition in one page. I couldn’t agree more. In my consulting work, I take this idea even further by asking my clients to summarize their strategy in less than 15 words. This statement must identify the target customer, the value proposition, and how the latter fits two requirements: * Focus: What you want to offer to the target customer and what you don’t; * Difference: Why your value proposition is divergent from competitive alternatives. Sounds simple. But it’s more difficult than it seems. The 15-word constraint is a test that often reveals a profound lack of alignment among managers. In a 100-page strategy document you can state everything you want, which makes everyone in the organization feel comfortable. The trouble is that managers then interpret the 100 pages according to their view and aspiration of the company’s strategy. The result: one planning document, many different strategies. All great business strategies can be summarized in a short headline. Easy to understand and communicate, they convey clarity internally and externally to the customer. Clarity...
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...“Markup Sprachen und semi-strukturierte Daten” http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/lehre/markupsemistrukt/02ss XSLT 1.0 Tutorial Dan Olteanu Dan.Olteanu@pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de What means XSLT? XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) consists of • XSL-T (Transformation) – primarily designed for transforming the structure of an XML document – W3C Specification: http://www.w3c.org/TR/xslt • XSL-FO (Formating Objects) – designed for formatting XML documents – W3C Specification: http://www.w3c.org/TR/xsl XSLT origin: Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL, pron. Dissel). Why Transform XML? XML is a success because it is designed: • for separation between content and presentation (XML is a generic markup language) • as a format for electronical data interchange(EDI) between computer programs • as human readable/writable format Transforming XML is not only desirable, but necessary. XSLT is an attempt to fulfill this need, by supporting • publishing data (not necessarily XML). • conversion between two proprietary formats (not necessarily XML). Publishing XML data Data Conversion How XML data can be transformed using XSLT? (1/3) 1 a conversion of XML data into a tree structure, e.g. using an XML parser conformant to – Document Object Model (DOM) http://www.w3.org/DOM/ – Simple Api for XML (SAX) http://www.megginson.com/SAX/sax.html Tree structure XML fragment This is an example para XML Parser DOM/SAX ...
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... Fortunately, online resources have created essential communication skills between me and my colleagues, tutors and other acquaintances around the universe. This method has enabled me interact via online through discussing and exchanging learning information. However, the effect has not only made it easy for the general public and myself to access accurate and non-accurate information, but has also contributed in developing and improving social development/network. Most importantly, it has given me the privilege to search more than one database to enable obtaining a successful research project. Furthermore, the aspect of locating the right source is an enormous issue. Example is researching using Google and Google scholar. The difference is that, Google scholar is peer-reviewed but Google is not. Based on this evidence, not all information is academically evaluated or peer-reviewed before it is made public on the internet. Database searching enable me learn different techniques in acquiring successful research. Examples are: I get the privilege to access both old and new online journals, books, and newspapers. Most importantly, it enables learning to be more flexible and convenient. In addition to that, I am able to book an appointment, counselling services, apply for extensions and...
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...The article “American Scholar” by Emerson calls upon the youth of America to create their own literature, and become individuals in society rather than to simply believe in the things they are expected to think and believe in. Emerson calls on the fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa to become individual thinkers and scholars, Emerson tells them to keep expanding their minds and ideas. The article is used to inspire and address young Americans to create their own ideas, and without the influence of previous works, and British literature, in the hope to revitalize American literature and poetry. Through the use of metaphors, similes, repetition, imagery, as well as metonyms Emerson reinforces his idea that one should be a scholar by nature, rather than by literature. Emersons use of metaphors convey his idea that one should be an individual thinker rather than rely just on the works of others to create his ideas and beliefs. “…when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse the parrot of other mens thinking” (Emerson 470). the use of this quote portrays Emersons idea that men have come to completely relying on the works of others, and that Man is no longer and individual thinker. He encourages these young men of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity to become individual thinking men, and to base their ideas on nature and the society they live in, since one cannot base present society on a later society. Emersons idea on what a scholar should be is that one should...
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...A scholar is defined as one who develops mastery in a given discipline through continued study (Websters, 2007). In psychology, becoming a scholar involves long hours of studying and learning psychological theory, reading and analyzing research studies on one’s area of interest, and engaging professionally in the field by attending conferences and other learning opportunities. Scholars master their areas of study but may not necessarily apply their knowledge base in the field. A practitioner is defined as one who practices an occupation or technique (Websters, 2007). Practitioners, in a broad sense, are visible in all fields of the social sciences and psychology under varied position titles. A practitioner is one who is capable of applying the scientific knowledge and research in psychology to his or her emphasis area. I believe that becoming a scholar (knowledge)-practitioner (application) is a process that involves both study of theory and research leading to mastery of one’s emphasis area of interest and the ability to apply that mastery to real world issues. Scholar-practitioners take their knowledge and use it to synthesize, evaluate, and add to their chosen profession. The practitioner-scholar learns to integrate clinical and professional experience with empirically based knowledge, academic and scientific research. This model usually refers to masters-level students and graduate programs. The model that best describes the position I am in right now is the...
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...www.gutenberg.net Title: Essays Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Editor: Edna H. L. Turpin Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16643] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ESSAYS *** 1 Essays Produced by Curtis A. Weyant , Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ESSAYS BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON Merrill's English Texts SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY EDNA H.L. TURPIN, AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY," "CLASSIC FABLES," "FAMOUS PAINTERS," ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES E. MERRILL CO. 1907 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LIFE OF EMERSON CRITICAL OPINIONS CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR COMPENSATION SELF RELIANCE FRIENDSHIP HEROISM MANNERS GIFTS NATURE SHAKESPEARE; OR, THE POET PRUDENCE CIRCLES NOTES PUBLISHERS' NOTE Merrill's English Texts 2 Essays 3 This series of books will include in complete editions those masterpieces of English Literature that are best adapted for the use of schools and colleges. The editors of the several volumes will be chosen for their special qualifications in connection with the texts to be issued under their individual supervision, but familiarity with the practical needs of the classroom, no less than sound scholarship, will characterize the editing of every book in the series. In connection with each text, a critical and historical introduction, including a...
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...6 January 2014 My dear Ateneo Scholars, Let me greet you a Happy New Year! It comes from a heart filled with joy from having read all your cards and letters. It was the best part of being Acting VP – to receive the volumes of lovely cards and greetings and sentiments. As you expressed thanks to me for the role and the function that translated into granting you scholarships, I also express gratitude for your ability to say ‘thank you’ and for the great things that you have done even while you are still students. 1 While reading your letters and greetings, I said to myself, how wonderful it is to be in Ateneo where students ‘get it!’ – these ideas of excellence and service are not just lip service; they are actualized in the students, in you. All this makes me proud of you! I wish you all the good things in life. And I also wish and pray that when you already have them to the full, you will not spill this to waste it but to make others live as well. I’m confident that you will. I look forward to that time when you will come back to us to tell us about the ‘harvest that is plenty’ and blessed by the Lord. See you around the campus. I know I won’t be able to recognize you but please tap my shoulder when you see me and tell me who you are. We can also chat if you like sometime. Have a great student life as Ateneans. Have a blessed New Year! Warm regards, MARIA LUZ C. VILCHES Dean P.S. I wrote a poem on New Year’s day and I hope you like it. It was inspired by the aftermath...
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...Scholar Essay Who am I to judge ones race, class or gender? , from the way they to look to the sway in their, who am I to judge what they should be called or what they shouldn’t be called. Just because the individual is a lighter color than me or from a different ethnicity, aren’t we all consider to be as an equal? The binary stereotyping and mixed cultural signals of African American and Latino females are identified in Mammies, Matriarch and Other Controlling Images and The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria examines the race, class, gender, and sexuality and how these representations speak to the African American and Latino women .Race, Class, and Gender are constructed categories that causes controlling images such as Mammy, Hot Tamale, Bad Black Woman, and Jezebels to become a natural way of thinking leading women to act and believe that is who they are and eventually they who will become. Patricia Collins article (Chap 4), “Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images” (2000), defines the oppression, objectification, and controlling images of African American women in the society, as well as the social acceptance of African American women. Collins supports her theories and hypothetical thinking with supporting statements from other black feminist that illustrate similar beliefs and theories that she asserts in her article. Collins purpose and objective is to point out the stereotypical condition of African American women in the society and...
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...Scholars and their theories Stephen Mitchell- “Job is a man of patience.We are far more likely to see the book as a theological treatise on human suffering, especially the innocent variety.” Observed that William Blake, who created a series of engravings on Job, “is still the only interpreter to understand that the theme of this book is spiritual transformation”. Perhaps Blake is among the few to see in Job, what is involved in coming to live before the only God we cannot construct. Sees the flawlessness of Jobs life as a depiction of Job as the ‘perfect moral businessman’, who knows how to succeed at the reward game, with life and with God. “All this bewilderment and outrage couldn’t be so intense if Job didn’t truly love God. He senses that in spite of appearances there is somewhere, an ultimate justice, but he doesn’t know where. He is like a nobler Othello who has been brought conclusive evidence that his wife has betrayed him:his honesty won’t allow him to disbelieve it, but his love won’t allow him to believe it. The voice is saying “What is all this foolish chatter about good and evil...about battles between a hero-God and some cosmic opponent? Don’t you understand that there is no one else in here?” David Robertson-Draws our attention to Job’s speech in chapter 9, in which Job predicts what would happen if he summoned God to a face-to-face encounter. “If it is a contest of strength,behold him”-Job. When God finally does appear, Job’s prediction comes true “So...
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...have chosen this topic about the impact of correlation between the Internet and customer in banking industry because there is plenty of wide information in different sources in order to compare advantages and disadvantages.However,I have chosen topic that specific about Customer Relationship between Bank sector and Internet and also looking for the impact of the Internet influence to customer relationship. Moreover,I have specified more narrow about the scope of my research just in the UK to understand clearly.Therefore,each data source which I have used should be very update and focus just only on the UK. Therefore ,I have aimed advantage from the quality of data sources ,namely Business Source Premier/Ebdco(BSP),Nexis UK,Google Scholar and Guardian newspaper to research my topic. Online Databases First step for this resource is to access the Sheffield Hallam Shuspace website,I then log on in order to search information in ‘library gateway’.There are a plenty of reliable information related to my topic.In there I am going to use ‘Subject guides’ function of the gateway (Business and Management),then I chose sub-tab on the top (Journals and newspapers).This provides me a number of important journals and newspapers for business and management and also cover knowledge of this topic .Consequently, I...
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...Purpose of the Literature Review Boote, D.N. & Beile, P. (2005). Scholars before researchers: On the centrality of the dissertation literature review in research preparation. Educational Researcher 34/6, 3-15. What is a literature review? (adapted from: http://www.library.cqu.edu.au/tutorials/litreviewpages/) A literature review is an evaluative report of studies found in the literature related to your selected area. The review should describe, summarize, evaluate and clarify this literature. It should give a theoretical basis for the research and help you determine the nature of your own research. Select a limited number of works that are central to your area rather than trying to collect a large number of works that are not as closely connected to your topic area. A literature review goes beyond the search for information and includes the identification and articulation of relationships between the literature and your field of research. While the form of the literature review may vary with different types of studies, the basic purposes remain constant: • • • • • • • • • • Provide a context for the research Justify the research Ensure the research hasn't been done before (or that it is not just a "replication study") Show where the research fits into the existing body of knowledge Enable the researcher to learn from previous theory on the subject Illustrate how the subject has been studied previously Highlight flaws in previous research Outline gaps in previous research...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Guru Ghasidas University ] On: 13 January 2014, At: 02:45 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of Strategic Marketing Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjsm20 An examination of marketing techniques that influence Millennials' perceptions of whether a product is environmentally friendly Katherine T. Smith a a Department of Marketing , Texas A&M University , 4112 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843-4112, USA Published online: 19 Nov 2010. To cite this article: Katherine T. Smith (2010) An examination of marketing techniques that influence Millennials' perceptions of whether a product is environmentally friendly, Journal of Strategic Marketing, 18:6, 437-450, DOI: 10.1080/0965254X.2010.525249 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0965254X.2010.525249 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors,...
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...THE CHANGING ROLE OF MIDDLEMEN - STRATEGIC RESPONSES TO DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS Robert Olsson robert.olsson@chalmers.se Sweden Chalmers University of Technology Lars-Erik Gadde lars-erik.gadde@chalmers.se Sweden Chalmers University of Technology Kajsa Hulthén kajsa.hulthen@chalmers.se Sweden Chalmers University of Technology Competitive Paper ABSTRACT This paper deals with changing roles of so called middlemen. In today’s business reality, there is a clear shift in the orientation of middlemen, from ‘only’facilitating the sale of produced goods, to identifying customer needs and sourcing to create solutions that match these needs.This paper aims to explore the changing roles of middlemen.The analytical framework takes its point of departure in the Industrial Network Approach. The study of roles focuses on operations and skills with regard to the activity and resource layers. For the actor layer significant issues concern the nature of the middleman’s relationship with other actors and its position in the network. These aspects are central for the value-generating capacity of the middleman. The paper relies on a case study of an actor (a middleman), Mobile Inc., involved in providing ‘Wireless equipment’ with a focus on mobile phone solutions.The main conclusion of the empirical study is that numerous opportunities are open for identification of roles for middlemen in the current distribution landscape. From being a typical ‘traditional’ middleman, Mobile...
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